@tnielsenhayden @annafdd in a way, yes. But most fiction translators I know (incl.myself) take nonfiction commissions if they know the field
@tnielsenhayden @MrPersimmon If you only ordered someone to cease, they could validly comply by momentarily not doing whatever it is.
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@chaosprime@MrPersimmon It wouldn't plead well in court. -
@tnielsenhayden@MrPersimmon No? I'd tend to think the person who deviated from convention would automatically be considered the asshole. -
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@chaosprime I'd predict the court would say that if you know hairsplitting definitions of "cease", "desist" is also in your vocabulary. -
@tnielsenhayden And I, being a jerk, say that indeed it is, and complainant did not direct me to do that, so I had no obligation to. -
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@chaosprime Someone's bound to invoke the reasonable man. -
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@tnielsenhayden Ia, Ia, ph'nglui mglw'nafh Reasonable Man wgah'nagl fhtagn -
@tnielsenhayden (It's similar to the dread invocation of the Invisible Hand practiced in secret by the dark economists)
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@chaosprime "Cease" can have a finicky meaning because we have other words -- stop, desist, refrain -- covering the adjacent meanings.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime If "cease" is the only one of them you know, then in your vocabulary, "cease" means "stop" in all its senses. -
@tnielsenhayden *nod* Which is how trying to understand legal documents in general-usage terms gets one thoroughly fucked. -
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@chaosprime Or other legal dialects, viz. newbie authors who take their publishing contract to their uncle the real estate lawyer. -
@tnielsenhayden@chaosprime The farther away you are, the harder it is to see the gaps and cracks, but they're there.
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